Contributor: Bob Waliszewski

Top-5 release

This million-seller went all the way to the top of the R&B chart (a number-2 pop CD). “I Wanna Know” became a Top-10 smash.

Topped the charts its first week selling 1.3 million. Title track entered the Top 10.

This million-seller peaked at 6 on the R&B chart. The smooth “”Sweet Lady”” is a Top-10 single.

Disc hit number 5. “Liquid Dreams” peaked at 10.

Million-seller bowed at number 1 and yielded the hit R&B single “I Wish.”

Despite its upbeat teen appeal, this disc never got higher than number 50.

No. 1 album has sold more than a million copies

This Top-5 CD yielded the hits “Soulja Girl” and “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” which spent months as the nation’s hottest ringtone.

This deplorable disc checked in at number 3.

Top-10 pop disc

This release—like its predecessor—debuted atop the pop and R&B charts.”

Disc debuted at number 21. Has subsequently sold more than a half-million copies.